Tag Archives: Art

For a physician, getting your financial house if you wish is an organized process exactly like seeing and treating patients. Let’s summarize what I’ve been discussing in the past posts: Continue reading →

Have you wondered to the impact anxiety and burnout might be having on you? Most physicians go into the health care industry believing that hard work and dedication will create a happy, successful and satisfying career in the practice of medical care. The sacrifices made through the added numerous years of education and training necessary to develop medical expertise look like well worth it with the journey that culminates in any successful career with wealth, stability and a sense of personal accomplishment and altruistic satisfaction. Continue reading →

Making way for your ingenuity. Continue reading →

A physician’s life often appear to be programmed. We move from college to school of medicine to internship to residency to fellowship to practice from a seamless path. Twelve to 15 years go by without too many questions for we’re consumed using the educational process and the brass ring by the end on this marathon event. Another straight line seems ahead of us when we pursue our career. Continue reading →

Why would a health care provider leave clinical practice and start making movies? What am I? A health care provider? A filmmaker? That question has frequently work through my mind during the last 5 years. It absolutely was planted into my brain by an emergency Department director I’d about five years ago that said with me upon my annual review before you sign a new contract, “I’m uncertain I like a wanna be filmmaker and a part time doctor doing work for me.” Naturally I didn’t sign that contract. Continue reading →

Generally If I had merely one word, I will use “pinball” to spell out my transition from academic surgery being an Associate Professor at Dartmouth to what I actually do now, combining locum tenens general surgery with being a thought leader in physician engagement and optimizing physician-hospital collaboration. Yet, writing is apparently the common thread at my iterative life journey. I learned that the words “author” and “authority” use a common root, auctor, (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authority) meaning writer, progenitor, accepted resource for information, power, and mastery. Continue reading →

Physicians seeking non-clinical careers will have to optimize important life skills. A growing quantity of physicians are pursuing non-clinical careers. Some have discovered they could will no longer sustain their purpose and passion by way of a clinical practice. Others feel trapped within their roles in traditional medicine-and want out. Continue reading →